Blame Cuomo for New York’s coming natural-gas crisis

If you suppose Gov. Cuomo’s neglect of mass transit has precipitated issues, merely wait ’til you see what his reckless de facto ban on natural-gas pipelines is doing.

On Thursday, Con Ed notified regulators that, come March 15, it acquired’t settle for new gasoline prospects in most of Westchester, thanks to supply shortages. National Grid has been issuing comparable warnings. New-customer cutoffs inside the metropolis may be merely throughout the nook.

With no smart substitute gasoline for heating, this will likely throttle residential and industrial improvement.

“Cities either grow or die, and we are always concerned about anything that would discourage continued growth,” New York City Partnership President Kathryn Wylde knowledgeable Politico. “Clearly the threat that the supply of natural gas will be inadequate to support new business and development is a big concern.”

Cuomo hasn’t formally banned new pipelines; his employees merely doesn’t OK very many, sometimes citing lame excuses for nixing them. Team Cuomo reportedly has urged Con Ed to hunt out choices to pipelines, and Cuomo himself has been pushing for a shift away from all fossil-fuel energy sources.

Which threatens huge trouble for new would-be prospects — residential or industrial.

“We see . . . opportunities for economic development . . . with large companies wanting to come,” notes Public Service Commissioner Diane Burman, a Republican. “They’re going to need energy.”

Yet Alan Armstrong, whose company is attempting to assemble a pipeline from New Jersey to Queens, says the utilities “are not really in a position” to ensure new firms of “adequate gas supplies.”

Meanwhile, New York City is requiring prospects to change from higher-emission gasoline oil, driving up the demand for far “cleaner” pure gasoline. Con Ed has already remodeled 5,000 buildings inside the area from oil to gasoline.

Oops: climate-change warriors now oppose gasoline, too. And Cuomo is just too happy to do their bidding and efficiently ban pipelines, in change for their political assist. The gov and the greenies faux that vitality from renewables — like picture voltaic, wind and geothermal sources — can substitute pure gasoline, significantly with steps to boost “efficiency” and conservation. Maybe sometime that’ll be true, nevertheless not anytime shortly.

New York needs gasoline right now, and pipelines to ship it, to take care of the financial system healthful and rising. Cuomo has already socked New York collectively along with his ban on fracking and his Indian Point shutdown. Just how way more can its financial system take?